Junzo Okudaira

Junzo Okudaira (2 February 1949-) was a Japanese Red Army member.

Biography
Junzo Okudaira was born on 2 February 1949 in Shimonoseki, and he joined the Japanese Red Army. In 1974, alongside Haruo Wako and Jun Nishikawa, he collected $300,000 in ransom money after taking hostages at France's embassy in The Hague in the Netherlands, but the Syrian government took their ransom money and returned it to France when they landed in Syria. On 14 April 1988, five US Navy sailors were killed and 15 wounded in a car bombing in front of the USO Club in Naples, Italy, and he was wanted by the United States; he went into hiding afterwards.